Duns Scotus, JohannesQuaestiones in Aristotelis Metaphysicam (ed. Mauricius Hibernicus).
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A1r [Title-page.]
A1v Mauricius Hibernicus: [Letter addressed to] Petrus Baroccius. Incipit: ‘Quantum rem Christianam iuuerit Johannes Scotus, conterraneus meus . . .’ Explicit: longe candidissimus
A2r Duns Scotus, Johannes: Quaestiones in Aristotelis Metaphysicam. The whole volume edited by Mauricius Hibernicus, as stated in the dedicatory letter. Johannes Duns Scotus, Quaestiones super libros metaphysicorum Aristotelis, ed. Robert Andrews et al, Opera Philosophica B. Joannis Duns Scoti, 3-4 (St Bonaventure, NY, 1997). See Glorieux, La Faculté, no. 230i, Glorieux, Répertoire, no. 344i, and Lohr, 26 (1970), 192-3, no. 6.
K10v ‘Tabula'.
L1r Duns Scotus, Johannes: De primo principio. Johannes Duns Scotus, De primo principio: a revised text and translation, ed. Evan Roche, Franciscan Institute Publications, Philosophy Ser., 5 (Louvain, 1949), 2-152. See Glorieux, Répertoire, no. 344n.
L8v Duns Scotus, Johannes: ‘Theoremata'. Johannes Duns Scotus, Opera omnia, new edn (Paris, 1891), V 2-125. See Glorieux, Répertoire, no. 344w. On authorship see John Duns Scotus 1265-1965, ed. John K. Ryan and Bernardine M. Bonansea, Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy, 3 (Washington, DC, 1965), 23.
N1r Mauricius Hibernicus: ‘Epithomata castigationum, conformitatum atque elucidationum' [to Quaestiones, De primo principio, Theoremata.] Incipit: ‘[Q]uoniam vt inquit philosophus 6° Topicorum ca. 2. Omne obscurum quod . . .’
R3r [Colophon.]
R3r Amaltheus, Paulus: ‘Epigrama in Metaphysicam Johannis Scoti'. Incipit: ‘Qui modo lucifugis prestabam pabula blactis | Vilis et abiectis conditus in tenebris'; 7 elegiac distichs.
R3r Caietanus Alexandreus Cremonensis, Daniel: ‘Epigrama'. Incipit: ‘Emula me tenebris, et ceco carcere totum | Nomine tacta meo tempora condiderant'; 2 elegiac distichs.
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Venice: Bonetus Locatellus, for Octavianus Scotus, 20 Nov. 1497. Folio.
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Binding: Nineteenth-century half brown morocco with maroon cloth over paper boards.
Size: 329 × 228 × 25 mm.
Size of leaf: 319 × 207 mm.
Some early marginal notes.
Partial rubrication: some paragraph marks are supplied in red; some capital strokes in red; woodcut initial on A2r partly coloured in red.
Provenance: Purchased on 18 Jan. 1889 from Joseph Baer & Co., Catalogue 235, no. 302, for 15 Marks.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 3Q 4.31.